Kellogg Corporate Partnerships

Connect. Collaborate. Impact.

Connecting Industry with the Kellogg Community

The Kellogg Corporate Partnerships team facilitates the flow of real world issues, insights and solutions between industry and the Kellogg community.

Corporate Partnerships works to understand a company’s needs and goals. In addition to partnering on student engagements, we can help navigate Kellogg and uncover additional opportunities—from recruiting new talent to developing executive talent—that can inspire dynamic change.

Utilizing best-in-class MBAs who are near the target age of our consumers provides us with a fresh perspective that we sometimes overlook.

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Discover ways to engage and outcomes of our partnerships

Impact the Student Experience

Kellogg students lead and organize clubs, conferences and activities across all MBA programs. Corporate partners support the student community and assist with strategic investments to provide students and faculty the opportunity to engage with industry leaders.

Clubs / Play a vital role in supporting and enhancing the Kellogg student experience. From celebrating cultural diversity (affinity clubs) to offering professional guidance and support (functional and industry-based clubs), opportunities abound to engage with both Full-Time and Evening & Weekend MBA students.

Competitions / Competitions are important to the Kellogg student experience and provide a valuable and rigorous learning environment, as well as an opportunity for students to interface with customers and companies.

Experiential Learning / Impact the student experience beyond the classroom by exposing students to real-world business challenges while offering a new perspective on your category or brand. Kellogg is proud to offer experiential learning opportunities across industry, function and focus that are mutually beneficial for both students and our corporate partners.

Recruit New Talent

Kellogg’s Career Management Center (CMC) understands the evolving hiring landscape and helps companies find the right talent for lasting relationships and mutual, beneficial growth. The CMC connects recruiters and Kellogg talent to build meaningful, one-on-one relationships with strategies that work best for each company whether more traditional or just-in-time opportunities. Find your organization's next generation of leaders.

Tackle a Business Challenge

Strong connections with industry partners enable Kellogg faculty members to bring real-world perspectives to their teaching and research. Explore our faculty’s academic expertise and learn how we can apply this knowledge to your organizational needs.

Thought Leadership / Kellogg Insight provides ambitious business leaders with the research and expertise to drive growth. Kellogg Insight features faculty expertise around topics of data analytics, healthcare and finance—to name few— and provides opportunities to collaborate with industry on salient issues.

Develop Executive Talent

Whether the goal is to create a standalone solution or fashion part of a complex talent development initiative, Kellogg Executive Education focuses on how individuals and organizations can transform themselves. We offer specific plans and pathways for professional growth and functional development for individuals and teams as well as broader strategies for enterprise-wide executive development efforts.

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Corporate Partnerships: Our Integrated Approach

Our Partnerships Build Lasting Value

Kellogg industry partnerships infusing theory and practice across the Kellogg community include:

Recruiting Relationships

Kellogg builds lasting recruiting relationships for employers to connect with students and alumni. Kathy Elsesser ’93, co-head, Global Consumer Retail Group, Goldman Sachs Group Inc., said, "Kellogg and Goldman are very similar in that they're very collaborative and very much about winning as a team while having your own individual contributions."

Research Collaborations

When Alicia Tillman became CMO at tech giant SAP in 2017, she was taking on a unique challenge. SAP is a 46-year-old company that is best known for back-office software, the ins and outs of which can be hard to describe to all but the most tech-savvy audiences. Tillman sat down with Eric Leininger, co-director of the Kellogg Chief Marketing Officer Program, to describe the new strategy.

Industry Partnerships

Kellogg partners with companies and industry leaders on thought leadership and sponsorship for the annual Business of Healthcare Conference, which is part of the vibrant healthcare ecosystem at Kellogg. Kellogg’s innovative Program on Healthcare at Kellogg (HCAK), was purposefully designed to offer an MBA that specializes in courses at the intersection of business and policy.

Inspiring Discussions

The Kellogg Brave Leader Speaker Series includes prominent leaders from business, government and civil society who engage our community in thought-provoking discussions about key issues facing the business community and the world at large. Brave Leader Speakers include Gwynne Shotwell (SpaceX), Miles White (Abbott), Bernardo Hees (Kraft Heinz), Mellody Hobson (Ariel Investments) and Punit Renjen (Deloitte).